Top pic is my current favorite, which would at the very least still par with the 2nd one should I have a chance to try it.

Until I bought the TG, I was never a pilot watch fan: too much male action hero ego, whether in a fighter jet or race car goes through my mind when I sight them, and through some sort of nifty design morphed into something closer to a classic watch design aka masquerade. The TG was the exception: it just says it as it is. The symbolism it evokes complete with a protruding third push button and “cockpit” dials and date and day visuals including the oft-ridiculed Top Gun logo on the back - but all that to me is this great timepiece being exactly what it stands for, without being distasteful or obtuse.

Regards, Shing | email iwcforme1976 (at) gmail (dot) comtime does not change us. it just unfolds us. max frisch.all that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that. baltasar gracian.

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I have two and I am thrilled with them. One because of the blue color, the other because of the dial layout, the circumstances under which it was purchased (in Austria, new, even though produced in 2008.) For me the best feature is the triple date which really evinces the cockpit gauges seen in planes.